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Sleepless Dream (Intro)
01:14
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Malfunctional Minds
04:58
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Straying through the labyrinth of thoughts
Not even close to finding an exit
Mankind has depleted its future
And escaped to utopia
Seduction of the mind, a new mentality’s reign begins
Though they’re still close enough to see themselves end their senseless lives
They do not care for nothing but serenity
Creeping apathy disguised as freedom and peace
Ignorance gave them strength to abandon
Their will, their soul, their grief
No will, no grief
So love your infamy, enjoy your self-incurred dependency
So love your misery, injecting pure perverted fantasies, an orgy in paradise
The compromise, malfunctional minds
Come closer to the wall of glass to see it all pass away in time
Innocent drowning eyes, you cannot deal with what they see
You will not deal with what they show, desperation is
the final vow with eyes wide shut, eyes wide shut
Prey! In last consequence you’ll try to tear down this wall of lies
With blood-caked fingers, humanity drowns in an ocean of selfishness
In last consequence you’ll try to tear down this wall of lies
too late, now walk the path you’ve chosen
So love your misery, injecting pure perverted phantasies
An orgy in paradise, the compromise
Recognize you’ve betrayed yourselves
There’s no way back from where you’ve just arrived
So love your infamy, enjoy your self-incurred dependency
The price for your paradise
The compromise, malfunctional
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The Lost Continent
05:29
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The lungs of hell are gasping for air
While I breathe deeply in an dreamless sleep
A faint whisper of a shapeless presence
Sent to wake me from my dormancy
And pull me down to the edge of my imagination
Unease, discomfort
Building up to confused terror
Rules I’ve known do not apply
Daunting shift in comprehension
Losing my grip, losing agency
This is all I never wanted
Shaken and appalled
Unable to move
Steps I ought to take
Fall on broken glass
Took my decisions with no second thoughts
Blinded by my shining facade
But now as it starts to crumble
Its shattered fragments bury me
Took my decisions with no second thoughts
Blinded by my fading charade
But now that it’s dissipating
The bridges behind me are burning
So I fail in betrayal
A king of ancient tale
Deceived, misled, stabbed in the back
Contempt is all that I have left
So am I to retreat
to mediocrity?
A path that wasn’t meant for me
Yet suddenly it’s all I see
Forced to concede
the questions remain
Is this confined?
And what am I to be?
So I fail at denial
Washed up on this small isle
A glimpse of what I used to be
Now walls are closing in on me
Wake up from your sleep
Wake up from your dream
Wake up from your sleep
Wake up to your nightmare
My dream is over and it won’t come back
No order, no structure remains
You say the journey’s the reward
So I must have gone astray
How ignorant of me
Covered up with empty phrases
My supremacy, it was founded on sand
The ground under my feet is dissolving
In a lye of pain and despair
The abyss below me opens its jaws
And I drown in the laughter of numberless mouthless wights
I’m drowning in this vitriolic water
Although I’m so close to the shore
So close to the shore, yet so far from the shelter
So close to the source, yet so far from release
Depravity and deceit invade my mind
An overdose of the deep, cold stare of the void inside
No way to refuse this injection
No way to antagonize the effect
Resistance declining under endless pressure
No one can fight what no one can decide
My last clear thoughts are drenched with hate
Before my total inner collapse
Trying to find all the answers
Dying before even having a clue
The tragedy of a man unfit
To come to terms with incompleteness
Searching for the lost continent
That was swallowed by an ocean of pride
He never even considered the fact
Of his first steps falling right on its shores
This is all I never wanted
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- Instrumental -
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5. |
Architects of the Night
06:50
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Without memories, lost and disoriented
strangers among strangers, connected by a sense of purpose
In the distance, a faint flickering light is our only point of reference
Each step toward it lets the memories return
We have been here before
Crawling out of the darkness on all fours
We expanded, we evolved, we accelerated
We diffused, dissipated, disappeared
Moving faster on the paths of those before us
Along ruins searching the same destination
Seeing these ruins, memories flash back into our minds
A million needles, a million tiny scars
Was this city built by our own hands in bygone days?
Were we reborn or have we merely returned?
Built in the night to bring forth a day
We submitted to isolation by design
Confined by walls to seal us off
And cast shadows on everything except ourselves
Our echoes became all we heard and all we wanted to hear
Each second of standstill let the walls erode
Compromising
Undermining
As time passed we refused to admit that
we had not yet reached our destination
Frivolous were we to strip uncertainty of its purpose
Stating the light as proof of being chosen
Blinded, as we searched not for reason
But reasons to solidify a status quo
Mistake dusk for dawn
King moves his pawn
Blinded, as we searched not for reason
But reasons to solidify a status quo
This day it dawned on us: the architects were we
Built in the night to bring forth a day
We submitted to isolation by design
Confined by walls to seal us off
And cast shadows on everything except ourselves
Divided by subjection, diverted by division
Objecting objectivity, rejecting reality
Was this city destroyed by our own hands in bygone days?
Is this home or still part of our journey?
With every step toward it, the light gets weaker
Will we arrive before it finally fades?
It fades
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- Instrumental -
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7. |
City of Glass
09:01
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Silently I walk through crowded streets, empty to my own eyes, open wide
Shadows forming, reforging my sight
Surreal, this place where dream and reality melt into each other
Faces swarming, dragging me away
Left with no need for a final look back
Ready to break out and leave all behind
With just the slightest idea of what lay ahead
Yet fully determined to take every step
You fool! The reins are no longer in your hand, you have lost control
Too late! This journey will take you much farther, much farther than you ever dreamt
Yawing, stumbling, falling through maelstroms of dementia
sanity slips through your fingers, awaiting the impact
Is there more than meets the eye, just because you can’t see anything?
Shattered and wounded, sunken spirits, you weren’t prepared for this
Silently I walk in disarray, empty wholes in my eyes
Straying and wand’ring, crawling down low, consumed by nothingness
When you’ve played all your cards
and your mind’s torn to shards
When your senses collapse and the stimulus fades
Prepare to be born
Every time you think you have the answer
You discover that the question makes no sense
Spiralling in contradictions
The failure of causality
Life is a fever dream in a city of glass
Trapped in a maze with infinite exits
which all lead you to nowhere at all
Life is a fever dream in a city of glass
To save you, you have to come within an inch of destroying you
Zero in on the edge
You won’t find meaning, won’t find sense, you won’t find direction
Until your back is against the wall
Reality lies within the eye of the beholder
Watch carefully what you see
Left with no need for a final look back
Ready to break out and leave all behind
With just the slightest idea of what lay ahead
Yet fully determined to take every step
Move on! Replacing the dogmas instilled in you since you were born
So close! You’re finally transcending into what was hidden inside for so long
Even that which meets the eye may never meet the mind
When you’ve played all your cards and your mind’s torn to shards
When your senses collapse and the stimulus fades
That which you see does not determine in what you believe
What you believe in determines what you see
Serenity lies within the eye of the beholder
Choose carefully what you see
That which you see does not determine in what you believe
What you believe in determines what you see
When you’ve played all your cards and your mind’s torn to shards
When your senses collapse and the stimulus fades
Life is but a fever dream in a city of glass
Life is but a fever dream in a city of glass
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Estimating, quantifying, measuring
Just to find that finiteness is not a question of scale
Exploring, investigating, deciphering
Just to find that meaning is not a question of perception
You have left the city behind
Your thoughts severed from your mind
You have left yourself behind
Disappearing
Embrace the void
Silently you walk from crowded streets, empty to your own eyes
Silently you walk from disarray, heading away from the light
Silently you walk to disappear and leave the city behind
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